The Swans boss was delighted by Tymon’s incredible strike, which helped inspire a 2-0 win over Oxford United
Vitor Matos has joked he hopes Josh Tymon “can do it again” after the full-back’s stunning strike against Oxford United helped hand him his first win as Swansea City boss.
Tymon struck to double his side’s advantage in a 2-0 success at the Swansea.com Stadium, after Marko Stamenic’s first Swans goal handed the hosts the lead.
It’s a victory that will go some way to easing any relegation fears, with only goal difference separating City from the dropzone before their meeting with the U’s.
Tymon’s strike lit up what was a largely positive performance, and Matos was unsurprisingly just as delighted as everyone else.
“It was brilliant,” he said, before joking “I just hope he can do it again!”
“A brilliant goal. I think the goal is massive, but the performance was as well.
“He defended really well, stopped crosses, which is something massive, especially in the Championship.
“He balanced the team, supported the attack and found ways through to go through to the last third as well.
“So I think he had a really good game and I’m really pleased. The goal was a really good goal, but the pinnacle of the performance if you want to say.”
Tymon’s goal came on the back of an Eom Jisung corner, while Stamenic’s opener arrived following a Tymon freekick, ending Swansea’s setpiece hoodoo.
Before this win, Swansea were the only side in the division not to have scored a goal from a setpiece, and Matos admitted it was an area they had worked on this week after the defeat to West Bromwich Albion.
“That’s what we tried,” he said when asked about improving his side’s threat from dead ball.
“That was something we’ve analysed before. We knew we needed to improve setpieces offensively and that was really important for us.
“Scoring one and then one from the second phase was quite important.”
The big games keep coming for Swansea, however, with relegation-threatened Portsmouth the visitors to the Swansea.com Stadium on Tuesday night.
